Archive For The “Politics” Category
“Merkel’s idea of unending budgetary discipline is anti-democratic”, argues professor Heikki Patomäki.
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- Tagged as: Angela Merkel • Attac • democracy • Economic crisis • EU • Fiscal Compact • fiscal discipline • Heikki Patomäki • law • parliament
Remember the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed and all the commotion they stirred? It started in the Fall of 2005. In Finland there was a little side episode in connection to the caricatures. The Finnish Government, headed by prime minister Matti Vanhanen, apologised to the Islamic world for the caricatures published by the Danish newspaper [...]
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- Tagged as: art • caricature • cartoonist • comic • Denmark • Finland • Finns (party) • freedom of artistic expression • freedom of speech • Islam • Jussi Vilkuna • Jyllands-Posten • Kaltio • Matti Vanhanen • Mohammed • True Finns • Ville Ranta
Anti-capitalist protesters have been demonstrating at Wall Street already for 13 days. The group of protesters gathered on September 17. “Occupy Wall Street” protests were inspired by the Arab Spring, particularly the protests in Cairo. Slow-news-day.net hasn’t found out any clear estimates on the number of protesters from the internet sources, but it would seem [...]
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- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Arab Spring • demonstration • New York • Occupy Wall Street • pepper-spray • protest
The terrorist attack in Norway has been linked to far right ideologies. According to annual terrorism report by European police agency Europol there were no right-wing affiliated attacks in EU Countries in 2010. The same report (released in April 2011) tells us that “The professionalism of right-wing propaganda shows that right-wing extremist groups have the will [...]
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- Tagged as: Anders Behring Breivik • EU • Europol • fascism • ideology • islamism • national socialism • Norway • racism • Scandinavia • separatism • terrorism
Last week True Finns party came out with their declaration against discrimination. Let’s take a look at the text first and then amuse ourselves a bit.
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- Tagged as: declaration • discrimination • Finland • human rights • immigrants • Jussi Halla-aho • law • majority • minority • multiculturalism • penal code • racism • Timo Soini • True Finns • violence
Finnish web store selling army gear has put out a funny item, a Nazi Card. And now they’re temporarily out of them. Hilarious.
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- Tagged as: Adolf Hitler • argumentation • eugenics • Godwin's law • National Socialists • nationalism • Nazi Card • Nazis
Jussi Halla-aho was a popular candidate of True Finns in the general election in April, only shadowed by Timo Soini. Halla-aho was then given the chair of Finnish Parliament’s Administration Committee. The issues handled by the committee include immigration, policy, gun and municipality policies. The immigration and gun policies are among Halla-aho’s heartfelt interests. So [...]
- 3 comments • Politics • Profile
- Tagged as: blog • Die Presse • Finland • Finnish Sisu • handgun • human value • immigration • Jussi Halla-aho • multiculturalism • National Socialists • parliamentary election • Timo Soini • True Finns
The Finnish populist party True Finns that gained 34 seats in the parliament election in April 17 are a mixed bag. However, one tight group within the party are the members of nationalist association Finnish Sisu (Suomen Sisu). They got four members elected in the general election: Jussi Halla-aho, James Hirvisaari, Olli Immonen and Juho Eerola. [...]
- 1 comment • Politics
- Tagged as: fascism • Finland • Finnish Sisu • Hommaforum • immigrants • James Hirvisaari • Juho Eerola • Jussi Halla-aho • multiculturalism • Muslims • Olli Immonen • parliamentary election • True Finns
It seems the disappointment of the Finnish parliamentary election result for Green League has a flip side. In the aftermath of the general election on Sunday the membership of Green League (Vihreät) has grown rapidly. The same goes for Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto) but to a bit smaller degree.
- 1 comment • Politics
- Tagged as: Finland • Green League • Left Alliance • parliamentary election • True Finns
The populist True Finns party lead by Timo Soini made history on Sunday by gaining 34 seats in the Finnish parliamentary election. Their vote rose by 15 percentage points compared with the last election in 2007. Their anti-bailout attitude has made Portugal somewhat nervous. Timo Soini received more votes than any other candidate. He has [...]
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- Tagged as: EU • Finland • Millwall FC • parliamentary election • populism • Roman Catholism • Timo Soini • True Finns
